Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced the deteriorating conditions in Libyan detention centers in Misrata and Kohms due to a 'sharp increase' in the number of people held, including pregnant women and children. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported violence and deaths related to fighting in Tripoli.
Aid organizations SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are being forced to end their life-saving Mediterranean rescue mission. MSF managing director Florian Westphal told DW the situation is "catastrophic."
The 94 passengers were rescued by a passing container ship last week as they were en route to Italy. After being returned to Libya they have refused to get off the ship.
Greek police stationed at the Lesvos facility are undergoing blood tests after two officers caught the disease.
Greece has announced that it will move 2,000 asylum seekers from the island of Lesbos to the mainland by the end of September. The move comes as Europe's senior migration official is visiting Greece and Cyprus, which is set to receive EU help to deal with a growing number of arrivals.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that the lives of both Libyans and migrants have been put in danger by clashes in recent days in Tripoli and called on European governments to acknowledge that Libya is unsafe.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has called for humanitarian aid for the Nigerian population in Borno State, stressing that the crisis is ongoing and at risk of deteriorating.
The 27 unaccompanied minors who disembarked the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti were "skeletons, tired, exhausted, confused", according to accounts from NGO workers who met them as they landed in Catania.
The Aquarius vessel operated by a Franco-German aid group is seeking a port where it can safely disembark with rescued people. An Italian minister has suggested the UK should take responsibility.
Doctors without Borders (MSF) called for a stop to arbitrary detentions of migrants in Libya who have been saved at sea. The organization has called it "harmful and exploitative."
The Doctors without Borders (MSF) reports that the majority of patients in its center for survivors of tortures and ill treatment are migrants, including minors, and expresses concern at how the incidence of torture in Libya is underestimated.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports that there are 700,000 migrants in Libya and torture is increasing in the country's clandestine prisons.